Three decomposed bodies found off a remote trail on the Morongo Indian Reservation may be three cousins missing since a shopping excursion two weeks ago, authorities said Wednesday. The bodies of two women and a man were found by deer hunters 10 miles north of Cabazon at the 4,000-foot level near Millard Canyon Road and Kitchen Creek Trail, said Sgt. Mark Lohman of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. The rugged area is 90 miles east of Los Angeles.

Two young men were shot to death early Sunday in a volley of gunfire from a military-type assault weapon at El Salvador Park--a little more than a mile from police headquarters. Ernesto Sanudo Mendez and Sammy Porras, both 21, were walking in the 1800 block of Civic Center Drive about 1:45 a.m. when they were gunned down by shots fired from a passing car. Police said it was another gang-related shooting. Residents of the Civic Center area said it was another outrage.

An evening of drinking and drugs descended into a grisly, lethal confrontation that ended in the shooting deaths of three young women in Pasadena, court documents filed in the case reveal. Filed in Pasadena Municipal Court in support of murder charges brought against two suspects, the documents are reports of investigations conducted by detectives at the murder scene and their interviews of witnesses and suspects.

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters on Tuesday led about 20 angry residents of the Imperial Courts housing project to the Los Angeles Police Commission, where they accused police of continually harassing and abusing tenants in the sprawling complex. "Please call off the dogs," the Los Angeles Democrat told commission members. "Keep them from abusing the people." Waters and the residents alleged that, since the Nov.

A Denver police officer turned up in Utah after his mysterious disappearance prompted a weeklong manhunt, and he told investigators Friday that financial and personal problems compelled him to abandon his patrol car and head west on a motorcycle. David Hayhurst, 39, who had gotten a new apartment and a job at an auto-body shop in Reno, Nev., said he decided to return home after reading a newspaper account of the manhunt and deciding: "I couldn't do this to all those good people in Denver.

Anaheim police late Tuesday were investigating the shooting death of a woman in the 1600 block of East Redwood Street earlier in the evening, police said. Details were not immediately available, but Anaheim Police Lt. Vince Howard said the shooting occurred about 8 p.m. There was no one in custody late Tuesday, and the investigation was continuing. Howard added that "it looks like (police detectives) know who the suspect is."

Police are looking for two armed men who forced their way into a home early Wednesday, hitting a woman with a handgun and fighting with a male resident who broke free and called police from a neighbor's house. No one was seriously injured in the incident at a Woodland Hills house in the 21300 block of Las Pilas Road, said Det. Duane Burris of the LAPD's West Valley Division. A family of four, including two children, was home at the time, he said.

A woman was fatally shot in the head by a man Wednesday, and police were trying to determine whether the shooting was deliberate or an accident. The unidentified woman, a Westminster resident believed to be 18 to 20 years old, was shot about 6:40 p.m. at a house in the 8100 block of 18th Street, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators Wednesday night were interviewing the man who allegedly fired the shot and residents of the house.